Do We Have That Much Courage And Confidence To Execute Our Power And Rights?

The constitution of India was accepted and adopted by the constituent assembly on 26 November 1949 and after two months; it was implemented on 26 Jan 1950. The best thing came out of this constitution who gives an ultimate power to every citizen of this country is the fundamental rights which have been mentioned in article 14 to 32 of the constitution. It is so powerful that – if you think that your fundamental right is in danger, you can directly challenge the Supreme Court and Supreme Court is bound to listen to it.

That is great news - but, do we have that much courage and confidence to execute our power and rights…? Suppose we are going on the road, a traffic police stops us. Most of us get disturbed because we do not know what the power we have as a citizen of this country. According to article 20 and 22 of the fundamental rights, we have the power to ask our offenses, and that is his duty to explain you about your offenses to your satisfaction. If he fails to do so, you can sue him, and he can be suspended from his job. But most of the people find bribing is an easy option. They do not know that by doing so they are not executing their fundamental duties towards the nation, which has been mentioned in article 51-A of the constitution. In this way, we encourage corruption in our country.

According to the section 171B of IPC 1860, the people who ask for a bribe should be behind the bar, not in the pub doing a party with our money. Do we have that much courage and confidence to do that? Do we have that much courage and confidence to pay the fine for the offenses we have done instead of bribing someone?

If you know your rights and basic laws of the land, two things predominately will happen with you-

1    1. You will have immense confidence in you and the constitution.

2    2. You will not break the rights of anyone because you know what the consequences you may face.

Many offenses are done by people because they do not know what could be its consequences or they do not know according to the law that is an offense. The constitution of India assumes that all the citizen of this country knows the law of the land. That means – not knowing the law of this country is illegal.

Do not ask what this country has done for us. This country has done the plethora of things for us. This country has created the base for our development. This country has provided the freedom to work here without any atrocity. Our ancestors have fought many deadly battles very bravely to make this country independence. They have lost their lives and luxury, so that, we can take our breath in a free country. Now, the time has come to ask ourselves what we can do for this country in our power and capacity.

This land has been a dwelling place of our forefathers. This land is a dwelling place for us. This land is going to provide a shelter for our children. This is our responsibility and fundamental duties to make this country beautiful and powerful. And this possible only when we throw our all wrong notions, assumptions, delusion, illusion and superstitions and be more logical, radical, rational, scientific and constitutional, only then we can expect that India is going to be superpower in coming years, it is going to regain its lost glory, its richness, and abundance.